April

May 1: The Power To Stop The System

WE HAVEN'T seen anything as odious and hateful as the Sensenbrenner legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1857. People should look it up--another law that asked citizens to participate in the persecution of others and the returning of escaped slaves to their former masters.

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Thousands March in San Francisco for Immigrants' Rights

Fifteen thousand people rally and march (April 23) in San Francisco, demanding legalization and equality for undocumented immigrants.

Open Borders

Here’s a two-word proposal for solving the immigration crisis in the USA: open borders. Before you mouse-click me into oblivion or crumple up your newspaper in disgust, hear me out.

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Ruin, Rubble and Race: Lessons on the Centennial of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

It's as if the spotlight that Hurricane Katrina cast on the inequities of disaster relief never happened. San Francisco's high and mighty are in full-throated self-celebration of the City's 'rising from the ashes' of the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire.

60,000 at Atlanta's Immigrant March

'!Si se puede!' April 10, 2006, will go down as a turning point in our state, where 60,000 immigrants, many of Hispanic origin, and their supporters, joined to show their numbers and to change the hearts and minds of the American people.

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Privilege Meets Protest at Duke University

In Durham North Carolina, a scant three miles separate Duke from historically Black North Carolina Central University (NCCU), but the divide more resembles a canyon.

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Drug Leniency for the Privileged: Draconian Sentences for Blacks and Latinos

This follows another high profile case where Caroline Quartararo, a former spokeswoman on Rockefeller drug law reform for Governor Pataki received a similar minor sentence after being arrested with crack cocaine.

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Unions Lead Mass Protests for Immigrants' Rights

Unionists and their allies expected to lead mass protests in more than 65 cities nationwide for immigrants’ rights – including more than 100,000 jamming the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol – on April 10.

DEMAND VOTING RIGHTS FOR KATRINA SURVIVORS

Katrina survivors demand and deserve the right to reconstruction, and first priority on jobs, job training and contracts.

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CONGRESS MUST FACE REALITY - IMMIGRANTS WANT EQUALITY

Senators will pat themselves on the back this week, for agreeing to their most pro-corporate, anti-immigrant bill in decades. Tens of thousands of people may be forced to leave the US as a result.

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